Words, Words, Words
Teardrops on My Gavel
Fitting, then, that Boehner’s turbulent speakership was bookended in tears. The Ohio Republican fought back tears when Nancy Pelosi handed him the gavel in 2011, which he then accepted “cheerfully and gratefully,” only to voluntarily surrender it four short years later. Pope Francis’s address to a joint session of Congress, an equally rainy affair for the devoutly Catholic speaker, was the best coda Boehner could think of to a reign of endless tumult and insatiable insurgency that he never seemed to get a handle of. {image id=1309053 align=right size=medium}
The Near Myth of Cultural Appropriation
Of course, that’s not to say cultural appropriation doesn’t exist. We just happen to go to a school that tends not to host parties revolving around blackface, sombreros, and war bonnets, and live in a society that generally looks unfavorably upon those things. {image id=1308468 align=right}
Putin's Day Off
“Mad Men” comes on. Smoking, terribly mustachioed oligarchs drinking themselves to death—it’s a transatlantic tale. Like all episodes, this one is self-consciously opaque, and Putin is uneasy, despite the perfectly timed delivery of an old fashioned by the keen attaché.
Southern Comfort
But after my heart rate had returned to resting levels (not for a while), I began thinking about what had just transpired: About 14 million people had their spirits lifted, dashed, and hurled this way and that on account of a game played by just 16 people.
The Social Justice Warrior
Eventually, I arrived at an answer: the social justice warrior. That walking campus cliché dedicated to rooting out today’s noxious isms and phobias—wherever they exist, and wherever they don’t.
